I will be swimming five days a week. I want to use the other two days for complementary non-swimming workouts. I am looking for suggestions. Being that I am out of shape the first thing that comes to mind is weight training. I could see some yoga in there as well.
Or...should I only use one day for a non-swimming workout and rest for one day?
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Wearing a speedo, cap and goggles while you lift weights doesn't make it swimming.
I thought that made it more functional :(
Cross-training to me means, well, doing the wrong ****ing sport. Common ones suggested for swimming are: running, biking, rowing, kayaking. These are all pretty similar activities in that they involve endurance in a particular repetitive movement. The repetitive movement is not the one you actually want to improve, and you also are not working on any other qualities besides endurance, which you should get from, you know, swimming. Like Touretski said, more opportunities to practice correct technique.
And I don't know any seriously fast swimmer who has added one of these endurance activities to his or her training and said something to the effect of "Boy, my times really started to drop when I started to do more jumping jacks and less swimming!"
Strength training, on the other hand, is not a sport. It's too broad and vague to be a sport. Which is perfect because it can be designed specifically around the exact qualities lacking from just swim training, and zero irrelevant or redundant activities are needed.
Wearing a speedo, cap and goggles while you lift weights doesn't make it swimming.
I thought that made it more functional :(
Cross-training to me means, well, doing the wrong ****ing sport. Common ones suggested for swimming are: running, biking, rowing, kayaking. These are all pretty similar activities in that they involve endurance in a particular repetitive movement. The repetitive movement is not the one you actually want to improve, and you also are not working on any other qualities besides endurance, which you should get from, you know, swimming. Like Touretski said, more opportunities to practice correct technique.
And I don't know any seriously fast swimmer who has added one of these endurance activities to his or her training and said something to the effect of "Boy, my times really started to drop when I started to do more jumping jacks and less swimming!"
Strength training, on the other hand, is not a sport. It's too broad and vague to be a sport. Which is perfect because it can be designed specifically around the exact qualities lacking from just swim training, and zero irrelevant or redundant activities are needed.
